“All The Missing Caregivers“

The project “All The Missing Caregivers” focuses on performative storytelling through the lens of the Albanian female identifying migrant labor, prostitute, and migrant academic experience in relation to Italy, the geographies of Eastern Europe, and the Southern Mediterranean.

It aims to shed light into a space of introspection, autobiographical feminist and collective memory. The project’s artistic development is oriented towards a process of performative writing and memory recuperation of Eastern European perspectives on womanhood.

There is a direct confrontation involving temporalities through the lens of a perpetual migratory way of existing between the East and the West as cultural paradigms in Europe after the nineties, specifically dismantling forms of southness and eastness as both, a form of identity and a form of subjugation.

The research delves into narrative studies, the question of the unhomely and belonging, and the presence of violence and memory in experimental documentary techniques, thus linking cultural studies, post-colonial studies, media strategies, and experimental film.

An end to violence is translated in her work as a continuity of violence: an impossibility to put an end to violence without engaging memory and spaces of confrontation and understanding.

Artist, filmmaker/storyteller, and cultural practitioner based between Berlin and Tirana. Her research centers on experimenting with strategies of memory recuperation and the potential of re-enactment with time witnesses. She explores the limits of (self-) representation as well as its tangential relation to video art.

There is a friction between the essential and a sense of exaggeration omnipresent in her search for clarity. She continuously tries to challenge a certain idea of established institutional formality in artistic research and academic language. Her work has been shown in festivals and exhibitions in Germany, Kosovo, Mexico, the UK, the Netherlands, Georgia, Ukraine, Italy, San Marino, Greece, etc. She is currently a fellow at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen conducting her final research on bathroom floor geographies of menstrual care in communist Albania.

For her research fellowship at Centrale Fies, LIVE WORKS Vol. 10 – Free School of Performance, she is broadening her research in performative writing and staging techniques of Albanian female voices and memories in the Italian context between 1992-2011.